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[George Deka]

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:44 +0200, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:38, Liz wrote:
> > > Dunno much about how Abiword manages opening existing Docbook XML
> > > Documents and saving them. I know that it was good for exporting
> > > articles. Anyway if you have problems let me know and I will gladly help.
> > >
> > > Again, welcome.
> >
> > thank you :)
> >
> > ok..i installed all the packages for docbook. no idea where to find the
> > run file for it. no idea how to use it. is it an actual program or
> > software for editing xml pages etc?
> >
> > sometimes i can be completely dense.
> 
> Hello Liz,
> 
> No worries. You cannot actually execute the Docbook packages by themselves.
> 
> When you say you have installed "the packages for docbook" I assume you are
> referring to the toolchain listed at
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocteamWork   #Toolchain
> 
> Quick Tour
> 
> Think of the Docbook DTD as a bunch of rules against which all our XML docs
> must be valid.
> 
> Think of the Docbook XSL's as a bunch of scripts upon which we build.
> 
> Standalone these two components do nothing. They are just static ASCII files.
> 
> Think of xsltproc as a processing machine. In our system we use it only to
> derive formats other than XML. To do this we feed the processing machine an
> XML file (one of our documents) and an XSL. When this happens it first checks
> thatthey XML doc is valid against the DTD and then it applies the scripts
> found in the XSL's to that document. It does not change the XML Document,
> rather it transforms it to a new format, like HTML.
> 
> As a writer you don't have to worry about this stuff too much. But I explain
> it because you may be interested.
> 
> The part you must focus on in the XML documents. The first hurdle you may have
> is knowing what tags to use where. For the most part there are tags in the
> documents that you can already follow. However, should you want to do
> something special use the Docbook Definitive Guide [1]. In fact a quick read
> ofthat should give you the idea. TIP: don't learn XML, learn Docbook and
> you'll be learning XML.
> 
> We have provided a convenience script in the root of trunk/  called
> validate.sh. Use this to validate your documents, it will tell you if you
> have errors in your markup. For example, to use the script do ./validate.sh
> userguide/userguide.xml
> 
> Don't worry if you don't get the markup correct. We will fix any problems and
> let you know what was wrong, so that you can learn. There are many people on
> the project learning Docbook while they write. Just have fun and don't feel
> stupid if you don't know. :-)
> 
> [1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/index.html
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> Sean Wheller
> Technical Author
> sean at inwords.co.za
> http://www.inwords.co.za
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